Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Over the last five years, almost all invocations before Modesto City Council meetings have been given by Christian faith leaders, but it’s unclear when the practice began or how it might impact civic ...

MACCLENNY | Baker County Commissioner Jimmy Anderson said he has a message for objectors to the Christian-based invocations given before all commission meetings: You may leave and return when it's ...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced last month that when the justices return from their summer vacations they will tackle a uniquely American church-state constitutional question they have avoided for ...

A leader of a Central Florida group of atheists, humanists and nonbelievers said he felt disrespected by Lake County officials who responded to his secular invocation at a county commission meeting ...

Two policemen escorted Rabbi Adele Plotkin from the Chino Valley Town Council meeting at the request of the mayor, who ended his prayer "in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." (JTA) — A ...

The prayer was for brotherhood, peace, courage and guidance — not dissimilar from the dozens of other prayers given before Sedgwick County Commission meetings this year. There was one key difference, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., upset some by ending his inaugural invocation Tuesday with the Lord's Prayer. The prayer, ...

On one of the last days of this year’s legislative session, Montana Rep. Ed Stafman — who is also a rabbi — learned that he would not, as expected, deliver that day’s invocation. He had chosen some ...

TAVARES — Sitting in the County Commission chambers this week, Gail Boettger couldn’t believe it when the meeting began not with a Christian prayer but with a secular invocation. The secular ...

— The Jewish school board president in a Pennsylvania town that has canceled the invocation at its high school commencement following controversial remarks by a student at last year’s ceremony said he ...